Long-Range From London: British Airways' 5 Longest Flights

With its main hub at London Heathrow, British Airways serves all six inhabited continents of the world. But, when it comes to non-stop flights, the carrier only serves five. The one exception is Oceania, where the carrier flies to Sydney, Australia, with a stop at Singapore Changi Airport. Due to the UK's central position between the western and eastern hemispheres, the routes operated by British Airways aren't nearly as long as other airlines we've covered in this series. Nonetheless, this video will examine this UK carrier's five longest non-stop flights offered over the course of June 2023, as ranked by straight-line distance.

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[JamesSmith-vure]

I flew recently with BA to Tokyo, which is now 14hrs going and 15hrs return. As BA is not allowed to fly over Russia. Which fly’s over turkey and china going towards Japan and flys over the North Pole returning back to the UK.

[muma]

All flights from London to Japan now take 14-15 hours.

[bluebox]

The problem with very long flights is the plane must carry huge amounts of extra fuel which add many tons to the plane's weight. This also means more fuel per passenger is burned to carry the extra weight. Freight airlines stop in Anchorage to refuel so that they can carry more freight instead of more fuel to burn up. After about 4, 800km or 3, 000 miles, it's increasingly more efficient to stop along the way for a refueling.

[alexanderzachary]

Longest flight on BA was in 1992 and it was Detroit Mi to London Heathrow aboard a beautiful 747-400. It was always special to see the BA planes coming in for a landing in Detroit. They don't service DTW anymore as Delta seems to have that route locked down, as well as the connecting ability their code share partners.

[georgeolson]

Longest flight for me on a British aircraft was BOAC 1965 Entebee Uganda London on a VC10.
A beautiful, quiet, smooth flight. The Chief Steward was a delightful older Cunard Ocean Liner Veteran. He and my parents had an interesting chat
before we tipped the seats back for a good nap. We had departed at about 1:20AM.

[martindehavilland-fox]

4:02 Did I hear 747-400ER?
I was under the impression that only Qantas ever operated those and they were created especially for them?

[anthonywatts]

Just flew Santiago to LHR. 787, in J. Very good flight, with great crew. Not sure about the ying/yang seating, but it served its purpose.
BTW correction, Qantas uses A380 on sin-lhr, syd-lax, mel-lax. Longest routes ( per--lhr, auk-lhr, syd-dfw) are 787.

[FredBloggsTheThird]

I do the #1 flight mentioned fairly often and it's a nice flight, works perfectly as an overnight flight leaving in the afternoon and arriving early next morning. I've never suffered any jet lag from the flight at all and always have a full active day after arriving. I put this down to the fact that at some point, longer flights are actually better than mid-length flights if well managed and actually help reduce the confusion of the internal body clock.

[zaphod]

0:28 BA no longer fly to NRT, instead flying twice daily to HND, since the UK was allocated an extra daily slot pair there

[eamonahern]

The longest I was on isn't a flight they do anymore. Heathrow to Lusaka was a 10hr overnight flight on a Boeing 767 in '06 and '07. The return journey was a daytime flight. The return journey in '07 was around 11hrs for me because we had to circle London for about an hour in a long queue for landing. It was a particularly busy day. I had to get the first train from Galway, where I was living at the time, to Dublin on Friday morning. Then Aer Lingus from Dublin to Heathrow. At Heathrow there was a change from terminal 1 to terminal 4 and a couple of hours to wait for the flight to Lusaka, arriving between 6 and 7am local time Saturday morning. So, altogether, I spent about 23 hours between getting on the train in Galway and arriving at Lusaka. Coming back in '06 was even longer because my flight from Heathrow to Dublin was cancelled but there were plenty seats on the last flight out of Heathrow to Dublin. I booked an overnight stay in Dublin for the return journey both times because the journey from Dublin Airport by bus or taxi wouldn't have got me to the last train to Galway on time. So I left Lusaka on a Saturday morning but didn't arrive back in Galway until Sunday afternoon.

[ariainlondon]

9:46 The longest BA flight I've flown was flight BA33/34 LHR-KUL vv (which is slightly shorter than LHR-SIN featured in the video). These routes are currently not in the network, suspended since the pandemic but I truly hope BA will reinstate it back soon.

p/s I dreamt of BA reinstating LHR-KUL with a new tag-on to DPS with 5th freedom rights. Also, competing head-on with QF on LHR-PER and purchasing the same aircraft that QF is acquiring for Project Sunrise to compete with them on LHR-SYD and LHR-MEL.

[jean-lucblanc]

My longuest BA flight was in 2019 going from London Heathrow to Johannesburg in the a380. It was a great experience ! (And it still is my longuest flight to this day)

[timothyleberl]

I actually do that 4th Longest from London Gatwick to Mauritius most years, great holiday destination for me and got family & friends + a place out there too.

[electroskates]

I flew from London Gatwick to Lima Peru in July and August 2017 direct with a flight time around 12 hours. Unfortunately they don't do that route anymore.

[zaibkhan]

I've done the LGW - CPT route on the 777. Good flight.

[stephenfienberg]

The LHR-CPT flight is twice daily in the southern summer/northern winter and the A350-100 joins the B77-200ER on the route in summer to meet the increased capacity.

[EpicThe]

Interesting and BA15/16 is actually LHR🇬🇧-SYD🇦🇺 via SIN RAF Changi

[elliotfinnie]

My longest flight with BA was London to San Francisco

[PakaBubi]

I flew SYD-LHR with 747 long time ago. Pre Covid I flew LHR-MCO with A380 and LHR-IAD

[davidrumbelow]

Great crew on BA, when we have flown from Cape Town to London the crew have been fantastic. On one trip, my wife a diabetic passed out. The crew and captain were fantastic. They contacted us after the flight to ensure my wife was ok. Great people. Sadly their.internal South African flights have stopped.